Re: [Evolution] account bugs (Show-stoppers) on installation

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 22:18 +0000, Asaf Greenberg via evolution-list
wrote:
> Just installed evolution;
> I'm on Manjaro + KDE, it's up-to-date.
> I Installed from official repos.

Yeah, but you need to tell us the version of Evolution, most of the
people here have no idea what version of Evolution comes with the
various distros

> KWallet is installed. 
> Keyring isn't (it's not gnome)

Evolution doesn't use KWallet, it uses Gnome keyring. That is your
underlying problem.

(Or to be precise, the libraries that Evolution uses to store secrets
uses interfaces that are only provided by Gnome keyring. Evolution
itself doesn't store passwords.)

> 1 connecting to a Roundcube server. 
> That's the only one that works (but doesn't remember the password,
> even though I check "add to keyring")

See above.  You must make sure that Gnome keyring is running before
starting Evolution

> 3 POPs accounts with GMAIL.  
> None of them appear on the folder list ! .
> But they do appear on the mail accounts dialog.
> (see screenshot)

POP accounts don't have their own folder structure, all POP mail is
retrieved and then put in the Inbox under "On This Computer" - because
it is now, on your computer and not held remotely.  If you want them in
different folders, see Help -> Contents -> Commons Mail Questions ->
Separating POP mail 

> 2 IMAPs on gmail:
> they show on the folder list, but not connected; Error message:
> "failed to authenticate: the server org.freedesktop.secrets was not
> provided by any .service file"

That is a DBUS error and is almost certainly related to the fact that
you don't have Gnome keyring installed - in other words Evolution can't
authenticate because it has asked DBUS to retrieve the secrets and DBUS
can't find a provider of those secrets (because only Gnome keyring
currently provides the correct interface).

> (+Few minor bugs which I will not address now.)
> Is it meant to run on non-gnome?

Evolution is a Gnome application and consequently it relies on things
provided by the Gnome ecosystem.  It runs in a non-Gnome environment
providing it also has access to the Gnome components it needs.  Plenty
of people run it under KDE or whatever.

> How can I start debugging this?

Help -> Contents -> Tracking down problems

It also helps to search the archives of this list. Many of the things
you have asked have been covered before.


P.